Once more, in order to protect yourself, your assets, your private and, consequently, also your professional life: STOP – THINK – DON’T CLICK! Be vigilant and suspicious
Like last year, every CERN staff member and user received a fake message posing as a malicious attempt to convince them to click on the embedded link...
Adhering to network protocol standards, any outgoing traffic initiated from the so-called “lower ports”, i.e. ports 0-1023 or using so-called “private” or “non-routable” IP addresses will be blocked
At CERN, you are the one primarily responsible for the computer security of all accounts, devices, websites, computing services and control systems you own and manage
As the very last line of defence, CERN employs automatic monitoring tools that will send a short notification for every login from a “new” location to the email address you have registered with CERN